A new history of the humanities : the search for principles and patterns from Antiquity to the present
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
- xvi, 384 p. : ill. ; 23.3 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This publication focuses on the history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilisations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music languages, literature, and the past.